Test 6 · Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great…
farmers just digging a well and find 8000 clay soldiers?? what'd they find?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmers, 8000 clay soldiers, soldiers · What happens: dig, find, ?? · To what, where: well · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 9 «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 digging | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 digging | advmod |
| 3 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 well | det |
| 5 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 digging | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 find | cc |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 digging | conj |
| 8 | 8000 | 8000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 soldiers | nummod |
| 9 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soldiers | compound |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ?? | nsubj |
| 11 | ?? | ?? | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | ccomp |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 find | obj |
| 13 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ?? | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 digging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | gerund | farmers | a well | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent well=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | farmers not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ?? | present | 8000 clay soldiers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find | would | soldiers = soldier | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1
A Roman army camp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 camp | det |
| 2 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 camp | amod |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 camp | compound |
| 4 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Army | det |
| 2 | Terracotta | Terracotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Army | compound |
| 3 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Emperor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Emperor | det |
| 6 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 Emperor | amod |
| 7 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Army | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A Maya city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 2 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 city | compound |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A Viking ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | Viking | viking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | compound |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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